From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 21: 9:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from go4.ext.ti.com (dlezb.ext.ti.com [192.91.75.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB53437B400 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 21:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dlep6.itg.ti.com ([157.170.188.9]) by go4.ext.ti.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5549XH15752; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:09:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from dlep6.itg.ti.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dlep6.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA12015; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:09:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from popsvr.india.ti.com (popsvr.india.ti.com [157.87.95.215]) by dlep6.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA11963; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:09:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from gautham ([192.168.185.126]) by popsvr.india.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA18597; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:39:28 +0530 (IST) From: "Gautham Ganapathy" To: "Jud" Cc: "FreeBSD.org - Questions" Subject: RE: Spontaneous Reboot on Startx (was Re: Problem with "shutdown -p now") Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:40:07 +0530 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:47 PM Jud wrote: > > 6/4/2002 12:33:28 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > >> > > >> > At 17:39 2002/06/03 -0700, patrick wrote: > >> > > >> > >> Errm - Scott, when I did the apm_enable, > >> remove-disable-apm-and-recompile-kernel thing (plus cd /dev and sh > >> MAKEDEV all), it solved my shutdown problem (I'd had it on my > ASUS > >> A7V333), but the next two times I tried to start the X server, my > >> machine spontaneously rebooted. Also, I'm using a boot > > > >There's a certain humor in that. However, the ASUS MB problem with > >startx is usually easily fixed. I happen to know about this, because > >I have an ASUS > > > >There was a PR filed on it. When did you last do cvsup and > >buildworld? If it hasn't been for awhile, doing so should fix the > >startx problem, Mr. Malone has fixed it. > > > >If not, and you don't feel like doing a build world, you should be > >able to fix it by doing the following. > >Open up /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/i686_mem.c > > > >Around line 269, there's probably something like > > > >u_int cr4save; > > > > > >mrd = sc->mr_desc; > > > >In between those two lines, put > > > >return; > > > >Then recompile, and that should fix it. > >The only thing that worries me about giving this advice is that you > >didn't have the problem before. In general, it's been a problem with > >various (though not all) ASUS boards, and didn't as far as I know, > >have anything to do with apm--it was connected with MTRR. > > > >Let me know what happens, for my own knowledge (unless you've > already > >put things back as they were, fixed it and don't feel like bothering) > > > >Thanks. > > > >Scott > > Hi Does this occur only on the A7V333 ? I switched from an A7V (KT133A) to an A7V333 yesterday and now I can't run X. What exactly is the connection of the MTRR to the motherboard ? I never had problems on the A7V. Regards Gautham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message